Taking an overseas flight from the city? Make sure you reach the airport with an extra hour in hand.
Temporary suspension of inline baggage scanning, coupled with shortage of manpower for immigration check and security check-in, have left passengers stuck in serpentine queues at the international terminal of the Calcutta airport.
Airline and airport sources blame the queues on lack of planning and infrastructure.
The problem is worse at night, when several flights take off back to back. There are 30 international flights from the city every day, nine of them between 11.50pm and 3.30am.
The rush could become even more chaotic later this month when more international flights are scheduled to take off. IndiGo, for instance, will add four more flights in the next few months.
